Chapter 5 Chapter 5: The Adventure of the Rat

The endless barren hills and bald hills along the way made people drowsy. The cheeky driver took up half of the cab by himself. He also ate all the ham sausage we ate on the road and smoked two packs of cigarettes. , Big Cigarette and I didn’t bother to talk to him, we squeezed in our seats and closed our eyes to doze off. The thick-skinned driver is a meddler, always looking for something to say, so he elbowed me and asked, "The place in Tongtianling and Huangquangou is so remote that there is no electricity, where are you two going?" What are you doing?" I said, "Coincidentally, we just want to set up wire poles in the mountains to power on. We will go to the village over there to see the situation first."

The cheeky driver didn't believe it: "Just open your mouth to talk nonsense, how many poles do you have to plug in to connect this mountain with electricity?" Big Yandie used Huatou to inquire about the situation: "Brother, you often drive in this mountain, are you familiar with Tongtian Ridge?" The thick-skinned driver said: "I can't say I'm familiar with it, but I know a little bit. I said that you two only pay the fare. If you want to inquire about other situations, can I give you some consulting fees? It's not easy for me. What do you mean? ?” When I heard that he asked for money again, I got angry and said: "It's only been a few years since the reform and opening up, and you're a scumbag driving a car? You've lost money? To tell you the truth, we always don't pay a penny when we go out. Take it, it's useless for you to grab it."

The thick-skinned driver relied on his big shoulders, and didn't take the two of us seriously. He said angrily: "Dare to go out without money? I'll tell you clearly, if you have money, take the car, if you don't have money, get out of the car early to play with spoons." go." I said, "I've never seen anyone who dares to talk to me like that. Why don't we get out of the car for a practice session, believe it or not, and I'll break your head off?" The cheeky driver also said harshly: "Look at you, if you dare to get out of the car, I will make you regret being born out of your mother's womb."

Big Smoke Disc persuaded: "If you have something to say, if you have something to say, you must talk about civility and politeness. On this premise, we have to talk about this truth. You ate twenty or so ham sausages on the way you drove. , and smoked two packs of cigarettes, these are all things we bought with money, and when we go to the local settlement to settle the fare, can we also charge a little less?" The thick-skinned driver said: "You're stingy, don't you just have a few ham sausages? How about asking for money?" I said: "A few ham sausages are also our people's fat, you can't bear to eat and drink for nothing?"

The thick-skinned driver made a strong argument: "I hate it, haven't you heard how steel is starved? You two uncles are sitting in the car, so I can't drive? How difficult is this mountain road? A few ham sausages, if you don't smoke a few cigarettes to refresh yourself, don't cry when the car turns over into a ravine!" I have never seen such a hateful person, and I wanted to break up with this two-faced man. The big cigarette plate stopped me. He didn't want to cause trouble, so he handed a cigarette to the cheeky driver and said, "Don't take offense, I This brother has such a temper, he talks too much, but in fact he is not a bad person, it is not easy for us to go out, how can we not pay you for taking your car, Comrade Lei Feng also has to eat, right?"

The cheeky driver said: "I hate it. Comrade Lei Feng's food, drink and clothing are all covered by the army. Besides, he has no father, no mother, and no wife or children. If he is full, the whole family will not be hungry. I have seniors and young children. Can he compare? Since we are all working people, I don’t mean to embarrass you. It’s all up to you if you feel it. ?” Big Smoke Disc said: "We are just curious about the name of this place. There is an old saying that people die in Huangquan, why does Huangquangou use such an unlucky place name? Isn't it a place to bury dead people?"

The cheeky driver smiled and said, "How come someone dies in Huangquan? Let me tell you, there is a lack of water in the mountains, and there is water in the ditches under Tongtian Ridge, but they are all as turbid as yellow mud soup. It’s called Huangquangou.” Big Cigarette and I looked at each other. It turned out that we were all wrong. It turned out to be such an underworld. Then we asked the cheeky driver about the situation in the ditch, and he started talking nonsense. We only found out later. Counting this time, he has run on this road twice in total, and he has never been to Huangquanling. However, he didn't care whether he knew him or not. He only took us in the general direction, and he only cared about Bragging, big words are not enough for him to say. After entering the mountain, the car drove more and more slowly. Seeing the outline of the mountains was swallowed by the twilight, the surroundings quickly darkened. Driving on the rugged mountain road, there was no village or shop behind. I couldn’t see any passing vehicles along the way, and I couldn’t find anyone to ask for directions. There was silence in the depths of the barren hills. When I was driving, I found a car coming from behind. I heard the sound and followed behind our car.

Big Smoke Disc said: "Okay, you can ask the driver of the car behind for directions, maybe you meet a kind person who can take us for a while." The thick-skinned driver refused to stop, and his face was not right. He asked me and Da Cigarette to look in the rearview mirror. The back of our car was dark, and there was no other car following behind. After dark, our car was driving forward in the dark mountains. We heard other cars coming up behind us, but we could only hear the sound, but could not see the headlights. No matter whether our car was going fast or slow, there was always traffic behind us. When the sound came, I stopped and waited for a while, but there was no movement behind, and I continued to drive forward, followed by the sound behind me, I could only hear the sound, but I couldn't see the shape, and I felt goose bumps on my body.

Big Cigarette's hair stood on end, and he murmured in his heart, and asked the cheeky driver, "Are there ghosts on this road?" I told him that there is no need to be suspicious. I don't believe in this evil, and ghosts can still drive? The thick-skinned driver said in a low voice: "It's hard to say, maybe some car fell off the cliff before, and the wreckage of the car has never been found. Now, most of the ghosts who died in the car accident followed us. If you don't believe me, I will stop and let you go down." have a look?" Big Cigarette's face turned pale, and he said to me: "Don't get out of the car, you are brave enough to win the victory, but I am an older brother, but I can't let you intentionally find that uncomfortable."

I was also surprised, but when I saw the strange expression on the thick-skinned driver's face, I immediately understood that there must be mountains on both sides of the road the vehicle was driving on, but it was dark and we couldn't see them. The mountain blocked it and formed an echo. People who often drive on mountain roads have encountered this kind of thing. It seems that something is following behind. In fact, it is the echo of the car in front passing through the mountain. The thick-skinned driver must also know that he is pretending to be a ghost Intentionally scare us. Seeing that I saw through, the cheeky driver smiled and said, "You can do it, you have some guts. Now you two are not sleepy, are you?"

I said to myself: "Fuck you, uncle, if I didn't know the way, I would have taken you down and beat you up. Today I will bear with you and let you know me later." The thick-skinned driver paid two hundred and fifty. He drove himself in the mountains and couldn't find his way. He was afraid that we would be sleepy and no one would talk to him. There is no other way, my stomach is almost remorseful, I only hope to find a village to live in Tongtianling as soon as possible. With the help of headlights, the small truck continued to drive on the undulating mountain road. The road conditions became worse and worse, and the car bumped violently. Seeing that the road sign was passing the "rat hole", I reminded the thick-skinned driver to widen his eyes from time to time. Staring at the road, when I turned a corner, I saw a man wearing white clothes on the road ahead with headlights, and quickly called the cheeky driver to pay attention. The cheeky driver slammed on the brakes and stepped on the bottom, but that The person came out very suddenly, and he had already touched the car before it stopped. We were driven by the sudden inertia in the car, and we couldn't help but rushed forward. The big cigarette plate just hit the bumper in the middle of the seat. According to my feeling, this blow was enough to break several of his ribs. It might be fatal, but I didn't care about my own pain, so I hurriedly helped him up and asked him how he was doing?Does it matter? Big Cigarette was so painful that he couldn't breathe for a long time, and reluctantly said: "It's important... Can it be okay... The flesh is..." I wondered in my heart, my ribs were broken but I couldn’t speak, and if I could speak, I was not seriously injured. How could I be fine after being hit so hard? I reached out and felt it. That was the money he brought to collect things. It seems that money can save lives, which is true. The cheeky driver was also stunned, and when he regained his strength, he jumped out of the car in a panic, searched the mountain road and under the wheels, and found nothing, so he was relieved. Da Yandie said: "I clearly saw someone on the road, but they disappeared in a blink of an eye, and there was no trace of blood on the back of the car. This time I really hit a ghost!" The cheeky driver spat on the ground and said, "It's better to bump into a ghost than a person. Hitting a ghost will kill you. Hitting a person requires money. It's too difficult to make money these days. My money is worse than my life!" Big Yandie said: "It's troublesome to bump into something in the middle of the night in the middle of the night. In short, it's fine. Don't talk too much, let's go." The cheeky driver complained: "If I didn't take you two to Tongtian Ridge, I wouldn't have to take a detour in this mountain in the middle of the night, not to mention the time to pay for gas, and the ham sausage is not enough, what do you call this? If I had driven by myself, I would have arrived at the hostel early to stay, after taking a hot bath, drinking hot tea and eating hot noodles..." I said, "Are you finished? If you talk like this again, his nephew can bear it, and his uncle can't bear it anymore." Big cigarette dish said: "It's not that my nephew can bear it, but my uncle can't bear it, it's whether I can bear it or not." I said, "Who can bear it? We gave him the fare to take him the wrong way, and we had to be scolded by him along the way. Who the hell can bear it, and I can't bear it." The thick-skinned driver said arrogantly: "Don't take my car if you have the ability, hurry down and play with spoons. I can tell you in advance that you have to pay for getting off the car halfway. You can try for a penny less..." he said While starting the car, the front headlights came on and reversed the car. Just two or three meters away, when I looked up, I found two little feet wearing white cloth shoes protruding from the front of the car. Ever since I took this car on the road and met an unreliable and cheeky driver, I was destined to have an accident sooner or later. In the dark and midnight mountains, a pair of little feet stretched out in front of the car like a swing, which scared us Yes, sitting in the car, I felt a chill all over my body at the same time. The cheeky driver backed up the car in a hurry, backed the front of the car, and saw the man's upper body, white clothes and white trousers, a big white face, with red cheeks on his face, but it was a paper dummy, probably a funeral in a mountain village The paper man I used fell on the road somehow. I drove the car up to me in the middle of the night and hit it on the roof. We got out of the car and looked for it for a long time, but we didn’t see anything. After falling from the top, I realized that it was a false alarm, but I couldn’t react. I forgot that this road has a mountain wall on one side and a steep slope on the other. directly turned down the steep slope. There is a steep slope beside the road, and the car will be destroyed if you fall. At that moment, I didn't have time to think about anything. I thought I was going to put my life here. Fortunately, there were many dead trees and vines on the hillside, which blocked the car from falling. , and finally fell into a soil hole, this place is called Wushu Cave, the name is very strange, I heard a cheeky saying before: "Due to the erosion of water and soil in the mountains, there are many sunken soil holes. Looking down from a height, each of them is of different sizes. The black holes are all like rat holes, so they are called black rat holes." The soil hole at the bottom of the hillside is a narrow hole with a big mouth and a wide bottom, but not too deep. The vehicle fell down and crushed the soil layer on the edge of the hole. , that car was basically scrapped. The three of us had cuts on our faces and arms, and there was dirt and blood. Our internal organs seemed to be turned over, and we climbed out of the car one after another. Under the faint starlight, we were dizzy I stared at the rear of the deformed truck, speechless for a long time, the cheeky driver stared straight, sat down on the ground, and when he turned around, he wanted to blame us again. I said, "You drove the car, you brought the road, and you demanded a penny for the car. Now that the car overturned and fell into a ravine, we didn't ask you to pay for it, but you want to blackmail us?" The cheeky driver couldn't find an excuse, so he could only say, "Both of you, at least let's carry forward some humanitarian spirit, don't argue about how much, just give as much as you want." Big Cigarette said embarrassingly: "We really don't have any money on us, at most we can sympathize with you out of humanitarian spirit." I said, "Who should be assigned to promote humanitarianism? Who is he?" The thick-skinned driver said: "You kid wants to have sex with me again, don't you? I tell you that I have practiced before, don't let me touch you, it will be serious..." He stretched his arms and kicked his legs to fight . I rolled up my arms and sleeves and said, "I'm about to learn how you punch Nanshan Nursing Home and kick Beihai Nursery..." Big Smoke Disc hurriedly said: "If you have something to talk about, it's easy to talk about it, if you have something to talk about, it's all about my face, okay?" The cheeky driver said: "What is there to discuss? It's all your fault. I don't even have a car. How can I support my family in the future? I don't plan to live anymore. I have to work hard with you two today!" I said, "You want to risk your life, don't you? Whether it's literature or martial arts, meat or vegetarian, draw your own path, and I'll follow them all!" The big cigarette dish couldn't stop it, I moved closer to the thick-skinned talker, and just about to make a move, the clouds covered the last ray of starlight, and the inside of the earth cave was so dark that we couldn't see people face to face, the big smoke dish mouth He yelled not to do anything, and took out a flashlight from his backpack to illuminate it. At this moment, the light beam shone in the earth hole, and he saw that it was a grave hole. The car fell in and cracked a rotten wooden coffin. I didn't care about arguing with the thick-skinned anymore, I stared wide-eyed at the situation around me, it should be an old grave before liberation, the earth hole was a robbery hole, not a rich man's grave, the grave is shallow, and the coffin is also very ordinary The cypress wood, gnawed by insects and rats and soaked in rain, the coffin board is rotten and white, the flashlight shines into the broken coffin, and there is only one dead bone inside. Even such an old mountain grave has been dug out by tomb robbers. I wanted to step on the coffin to get out of the hole, but suddenly jumped down from the top of an animal that looked like a cat but was much larger. It looked very fierce, with lightning-like eyes, and made a threatening gesture, as if it would not allow anyone to approach the coffin. coffin. That cat-like animal is bigger than a cat and smaller than a dog. It may be something like a raccoon dog. A raccoon dog is also called a dog. Occasionally, it will run into people in the barren mountains, and it will run away first when it sees people. Uncharacteristically, as if threatening us not to go near the coffin, I thought to myself: "This coffin has been dug out by grave robbers long ago, and there is nothing left inside. Could it be that the earth dog wants to gnaw the dead bones?" He waved his hands cheekily to chase him away a few times, but seeing that he couldn't drive him away, he took off the armor belt tied around his waist, held his trousers in one hand, and swung the copper head of the armor belt with the other to smash it at him. The raccoon ran away, staring dumbfounded at the big cigarette dish, and said cheekily proudly: "Don't be afraid, I'll destroy you two, you have enough empty hands, you don't need a belt." I was angry from the bottom of my heart, and said to Big Cigarette: "Don't stop me, I'll just pick off this Erpilian's waist today..." Big Smoke Disc hurriedly said: "Don't do it, don't do it, isn't it because of money? I think there may be something valuable in this coffin, otherwise why doesn't that earth raccoon let us get close." When the thick-skinned man heard that there was something valuable, he dubiously believed it, pushed open the lid of the broken coffin that was infested with maggots, and let the big cigarette dish shine a flashlight into it. It was out of shape, not to mention the copper coins that were pressed into the coffin, and there was not a single strand of cloth left, all of which were taken away by the tomb robbers, but there was a black earthen pot in the coffin, with a thick layer of dust accumulated, and the cheeky man couldn't wait He opened it up and looked, but there were only grain slags that had been half-melted into water in the earthen jar, and the smell was like soda. After seeing it, he looked disappointed. But Da Yandie and I know that this thing is very important. According to the folk customs of Shaanxi, Henan and other places, there must be an earthen jar in the coffin of the tomb, and the jar is filled with grains. Grain itself is also a kind of burial object. No matter how much gold and jade are, it cannot be eaten as food. There are still rice and japonica rice in the tombs of princes and kings and imperial tombs, but they are rarely valued. Those grains are buried in the tombs for a long time. , Under very special conditions, the grain in the jar will be fermented into fine wine, the corpse gas emitted by the rotting corpse, and the yin energy in the grave. All these factors are indispensable. The grave robber uncovered the jar in the coffin If there is no rancid smell, there will be a rare and strange fragrance, which is called "coffin-top wine" in the vernacular of the people. Because top-coffin wine is extremely rare, it is hard to come by, so the price is the same as gold. In the ancient tombs of emperors and generals, there are gold and jade treasures buried with them. If you dig one, you can make a fortune. Ordinary people do not have those valuable funeral objects. Most of the old graves before the dynasties can dig out grain jars, but the specific conditions in each grave are different. Not all graves can produce top coffin wine. The tomb does not look for gold and jade artifacts, of course, they will take them away when they come across them. They mainly look for the top-coffin wine in the tomb. We fell into this grave in a car accident and accidentally found the top-coffin wine. The quality is not perfect. The top grade is also top grade. The dirt raccoon dog that was chased away before was probably attracted by the scent of the coffin. Big Cigarette took out the marching water bottle that he brought with him, poured the top coffin wine into it, and said to the thick-skinned: "We really don't have any money right now, but we can exchange this thing for money when we bring it back. Brother, you can help lead the way and wait for the things to be sold." If you make money, no matter how much or how little, you have a share." The thick-skinned driver is single-minded, as long as he can make money, he dares to do anything. This time, it was the turn of Big Cigarette to scare him with words, and said cheekily: "I have seen that you two are not ordinary people. Otherwise, how would you recognize coffin-topping wine? Could it be that you eat the rice of robbing tombs and digging graves? I heard that you can earn a lot of money in this business. From now on, you can count me in, I will go through fire and water, go through fire and water, go up the knife mountain and go down the oil pan. what……" Big Cigarette said: "We are just dealers collecting antiques in the countryside. We dare not do the work of digging graves, but there is also a shortage of manpower. Brother, if you can trust me, I will work with us. Brother will let you take this car sooner or later." Earn double the money for the car, the grave is not a place to talk, let's go out first, and discuss other things slowly." He said cheekily: "Boss, from now on you will see me, we will see you in business, as long as you can make money by taking care of food and drink, if you say a word, I will take it as an imperial edict." The night in the mountains is very cold, and the graves are even more gloomy and cold. I can’t stay there for long. I first climbed out with a flashlight, and found myself in a large cemetery under the hillside. There are old and new graves. No wonder there are paper figures on the road. In front of some of the graves there are desserts for the dead, attracting some bobcats and wild dogs to eat them. None of us wanted to stay here until dawn, so we groped forward in the dark ravine, bravely went out, and listened to the wind. Terrible, like a ghost crying. One foot deep, one foot shallow, and the east is getting brighter. Only after walking out of this narrow ditch, the eyes suddenly open up. A peak protrudes from the sea of ​​clouds and stands tall. Surrounded by rocks and clouds, it looks majestic. Ridge, it is a ridge when viewed horizontally, and a peak when viewed from the side. When we go forward, we see a big black hole in the clouds and mist under the ridge. It is unimaginable that the outline of this cave is round and unnatural. I couldn't see clearly under the cover of clouds and fog. After walking another distance, the distance was half a mile away. I saw that it was not a cave, but a huge disc-shaped object protruding from the mist below the mountain. It was a flying saucer that fell from the sky, or it came out of the ground. mushroom?